Useful Reading

From 2006.igem.org

• Spatiotemporal control of gene expression with pulse-generating networks.

Basu S, Mehreja R, Thiberge S, Chen MT, Weiss R. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Apr 27;101(17):6355-60. [http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=15096621 Link]

• Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast.

Dae-Kyun Ro et al. Nature. 2006 Apr 13; 440(7086): 940-943.[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7086/full/nature04640.html Link]

• Synthetic biology: new engineering rules for an emerging discipline.

Andrianantoandro E, Basu S, Karig DK, Weiss R. Mol Syst Biol. Epub 2006 May 16.[http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v2/n1/full/msb4100073.html Link]

• Taking pictures with E. coli: signal processing using synthetic biology.

Levy M, Tabor JJ, Wong STC. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2006 May; 23(3): 140-142 [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/79/34166/01628897.pdf? Link]

• Teaching bacteria a new language.

Gerchman Y, Weiss R. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Feb 24; 101(8):2221-2. [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/101/8/2221 Link]

• Bacterial biosynthesis of a calcium phosphate bone-substitute material.

Thackray A C, Sammons R L, Macaskie L E, Yong P, Lugg H, Marquis P. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine. April 2004, 15 403 - 406 [http://www.springerlink.com/(a5z5xk45yoycugbyly1u2hei)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,19,44;journal,28,166;linkingpublicationresults,1:100192,1 Link]

• Some like it hot: spicing up ion channels.

Clapham D E. Nature 389 October 1997, 783-784 [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v389/n6653/full/389783a0_fs.html Link]

• Bioremediation of Arsenic, Chromium, Lead and Mercury .

Adebowale Adeniji, National Network of Environmental Management Studies Fellow, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004. [http://www.clu-in.org/download/studentpapers/bio_of_metals_paper.pdf Link]

• Habit of bacterially induced precipitates of calcium carbonate and the influence of medium viscosity on mineralogy.

Buczynski C, Chafetz, H S, Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. March 1991, Vol 61, No 2, 226-233 [http://jsedres.sepmonline.org/cgi/reprint/61/2/226 Link]

Papers on modeling of gene regulation process

• strcuture and function of the feed-forward loop network motif

Mangan S, Alon U, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003, 100:11980-11985 [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/100/21/11980 Link]

• Design of gene circuits: lessons from bacteria

Wall ME, Hlavacek WS, Savageau MA Nature review genetics 2004, 5:34 [http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v5/n1/full/nrg1244_fs.html Link]

• Design principles for regulator gene expression in a repressible gene circuit

Wall ME, Hlavacek WS, Savageau MA J mol Biol 2003, 332:861-876

• A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators

Elowitz MB, Leibler S, Nature 2000, 403:335

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